Hi all, I hope you’re well…
I was messin around in the old electronics supply store and somehow on the massive wall of ICs a humble CD4007 caught my eye. I looked it up online and saw that it’s a little bundle of complimentary MOSFETs. For some pocket change I bought a few to play with. Why not.
looking online, I see a lot of talk of these being used as CMOS inverters, which I’m still unclear on, despite my research.
I found some other folks that turned it into a guitar pedal, but I think it was really just a class AB amp in a small enclosure…not sure.
Anyway , I’m wondering what you folks could make of this! Any use inside an audio circuit?
Could we do anything creative with it?
I know that P or N channel MOSFETs can be used as clipping diodes by shorting the gate and drain (picture attached). Is it possible to turn this thing into a pack of clipping diodes then?
Poking around with the diode setting on my dmm gives some interesting results…that my inexperience cannot explain.
Could it be pressed into service as a beafy input and output buffer?
Just a thought experiment…And a bit of fun!
Cheers!
I was messin around in the old electronics supply store and somehow on the massive wall of ICs a humble CD4007 caught my eye. I looked it up online and saw that it’s a little bundle of complimentary MOSFETs. For some pocket change I bought a few to play with. Why not.
looking online, I see a lot of talk of these being used as CMOS inverters, which I’m still unclear on, despite my research.
I found some other folks that turned it into a guitar pedal, but I think it was really just a class AB amp in a small enclosure…not sure.
Anyway , I’m wondering what you folks could make of this! Any use inside an audio circuit?
Could we do anything creative with it?
I know that P or N channel MOSFETs can be used as clipping diodes by shorting the gate and drain (picture attached). Is it possible to turn this thing into a pack of clipping diodes then?
Poking around with the diode setting on my dmm gives some interesting results…that my inexperience cannot explain.
Could it be pressed into service as a beafy input and output buffer?
Just a thought experiment…And a bit of fun!
Cheers!